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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
An Early Lecture of Mark Twain.

San Francisco Examiner.
'"rw enty five years ago, when I first went to
Carson. said weilknown gentleman of that
city downtown hotel, MARX Twain was
just beginning to come to the front humor-
ist. He a. quiet. gentlemanly sort of fellow,
who could tell good story and take his liquid
rotations with the boys. and not show it much
I'm those early DAYS almost any sort of an
tertainment brought out big crowd. and, when
it announced one day that Mark to de-
liver lecture for the benefit of something or
other the Episcopal Church. it was understood
from the start that there would be a perfect
crush.
"Well. Mark assembled thu stairs into the pull
pit about o'clock, there being a whole lot of
the boys and young women friends of his, as we'll
as good many old people in front. Mark made
a very polite bow, and then unfolded gigantic
roll of brown paper. People thought first it
was a big map. but 1t turned ont to be his lee
ture, written on great sheets OF grocer's brown
paper, with an ordinary grocer's marking
brush. After his bow he turned his back around
to the audience and craned his head up to the
lamp and thus read fl ON the big Sheet as though
it would be i'm possible for him to see any other
way
THE lecture was on .The Future of Nevada
and was the funniest thing / ever heard. He
propnesied the great era of property that
before us, and sought to encourage residents
of the sage brush region by foretelline what
mineral discoveries. Right on the heels OF it,
however, came the marvellous discoveries of
Virginia City. and then he thought he wasn't far
off in his humorous predictions Many time
have thought of that lecture of Mark Twain.
1t ought to have been published. have read all
his books, and never nything in any Of
them better than that"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
FIVE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
Nominations for Council in the Fourth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth and Twenty First Wards.

The Republicans in five wards last night nom
mate / their candidates for Council, and in three
of these the primaries were conducted with
siderable interest In the Fourth, VIM. Ell. Will
and CHRISTOPHER MEG regor were the contest
ants. The voting for a time was brisk. the
aggregate at the closing of the polls being 291.
Gregor 20.
In the Sixth ward Henry L. Smith. A. P. Lee
and Hamilton Mccoy were the candidates for
nomination. More interest WAS shown in this
canvass than in any of the others. Each candi-
date spent time in very active personal
work and in the contest the street-ralroad ques-
ton and natural-gas affairs were thoroughly
discussed the candidates were
frequently called upon to define their
positions In those matters. This led to large
vote being brought out. and from the beginning
brisk. Considerable enthusiasm manifested
for each candidate. Smith received 231 of the
Alb votes cast. Lee, 49, and Mccoy, a.
In the Seventh. Robert McClelland was nomi-
Howard Benton. In the Eighth Ward there was
opposition to John C. Finch, and he was
nominated by reclamation by large gathering
of Republicans at No. Sengine-house at 8 o'clock
Mr. Finch has been time-keepsr at the Pan
handle shops for seven years. and is highly
teemed by the laboring men of his ward, of
whom there are many.
The Twenty first ward turned out nearly all
it's Republican voters at a primary held at
gine-ho No. Is. The candidates were Pres
ton Trusler and Capt. j. S. Garrett. The vot.
ing began at o'clock and ended at s o'clock.
In all there were 203 votes cast, of which Mr..
Truser received 173 and Mr.. Garrett 80,
giving Mr. Trusler a majority of 143. The
is the teller in the Meridian National Bank, and
has already served one term in the Council
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
Arctic Cold.

Scientific American
A person who has never been in the polar
regions probably have idea of what cold
really is; but by reading the terrible experiences
of arctic travellers in that icy region some
emotion can be formed of the extreme cold that
prevails there. When have the temperature
down to out of doors we think it bitterly
cold, and if our houses were not warm at
least sixty degrees above zero we should begin to
talk of freezing to death. Think, then. of liv-
ing where the thermometer goes down to thirty
five degrees below in the house in spite of
the stove. OF course in such a the fur gar
ments are piled on until man looks like a great
bundle of skins DR.. Moss of the English polar
expedition of 1875 and 1876. among other odd
things tells the effect of cold wax candle
which he burned there The temperature was
thirty five degrees below Zero and the Doctor
must have been considerably discouraged when,
upon looking at his candle, he discovered that
the fame had all it could do to keep warm. 1t
was SO cold that the flame could not melt all the
wax of the candle, but was forced to eat its way
down the candle, leaving sort of skeleton of
the candle standing. There heat enough,
however, to melt oddly shaped holes in the thin
walls of wax, and the result was beautiful
lace like cylinder OF white, with tongue of yell
low flame burning inside of 1t and sending out
into the darkness many streaks of light This
is not only curious effect of extreme cold but
it shows how difficult it must be find any
thing like warmth in place where even fire it.
self almost gets cold. The wonder Is that any
man can have the courage to willingly return to
such bitter region after having got safely
away from it, and yet truth is that the spirit
of adventure is so strong in some men that it is
the very hardship and danger which attracts
them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
The Last Bargain Sale of the Season.

There have been bankrupt" sales and "clos
ing out" sales and bargain" sales and hundred
other kinds of sales this in the various lines
of merchandise. Some have been subterfuges,
some have been falsehoods and some have been
truthful representations. Whatever may be
said of this class of advertising. thing IL
true. that whenever the we'll known and popular
Original Eagle Clothing House has made
statement through the newspapers or otherwise.
the public have come to understand that it Is
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth. So it is with special qualification this
quiet Sunday morning that we announce the
closing bargaiu-sale of the season the Original
Eagle. The sale is opportunity for pur-
chasers There will be suits sold this week at
prices which will tickle the purchaser and make
him smile all fall When you touch a mans
pocket you touch his heart, and it is safe to say
that this great sale will touch the hearts of all
purchasers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28

New York the cost OF supplies is far greater than
in the city. It takes a little over "a head per
week for my table, and when all the other ex.
penses of the house added the margin or
profit is by means excessive
That should actually charge for children
seems in the eyes of many board-seekers to be
an almost criminal offence. My children eat
scarcely anything" is the constant cry. Yet l
invariably find that 1.-THE darlings'' eat nearly
much as grown person and waste twice as
much The fond mothers insist on plling up
tho darlings'' plates with everything with
IN reach, and are always asking for extra and
unusual rellshas to stimulate their failing appe-
titea.
There is no end to the mean and petty tricks
that some summer boarders play From the
moment they enter your house they seem to do
nothing but scheme how they get more than
thew pay for. Ii they that there is unoc-
cupied room they will ask that the children be
allowed to use it till it is let, and il they
get possession they will do their best to prevent
it's being let
am considered unreasonable and unfeelng
IL object to my hall and parlor being made in
to playground. And If he visiting 'darlings"
like to throw stones at the cow or chase the
chickens they ought to be allowed these country
amusements
Of course each family would like to keep
oox OF beer or some temperance drink IN the
ice chest: and when such thing is declared I'M
possible. remarks made about "being so
mean with little bit of ice" The orchard and
fruit garden must be free to the boarders, who
waste or spoil three times as much as tbsy could
eat II the fruit were properly picked.
My sugar bowls used to be nightly emptied to
sweeten lemonade, and nv water-cooer robbed
of the ice in order cool the same. / have
now to lock my dining-room as soon a meal
Is over, and the lid of my water-cooler is
curely fastened down.
Let the boarding house keeper beware of the
young baby who is stated not to require food
supplied by the house. After tho first meal the
young mother says, 'Really. Mrs So-and-So.
your milk looks good that I think dear baby
might try a little" You assent, and the next
morning the fond mother calmly asks your
servant .'where the baby's milk sa"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28

variety which she had not secured for her collec-
ton. she Law in wait for it. As the snake bounced
upon a frog she pounced upon the snake; but the
reptile was in his element, and escaped her. w as
she to be baffled in that wayf Not at ALL She
managed to anchor frog in some way upon .
stone at the edge of the pool. at SPOT where tbs
bank was overhung the bushes Then she went
away. apparently: at any rate, the snake no doubt
supposed that she had gone away But she had
stealthily laid herself fat upon her face under
the bushes at the brink of the water. and there
she lay IN ambush for long time. while tho
snake curiously eyed the freq, moving
cautiously toward it with writing movement.
while the young scientists heart beat with
ticipntion, and now darling quickly away. AT
last the snake. with sudden resolution, made
bold to seize the frog; but he did a gloved
hand. swifter than his own sinuous motion.
darted from the bank. and he was a prisoner
espashing che water of the pool in his vain effor,
to escape The girls waiting had been rewarded
with q magnificent specimen. This fair ophiolo
gist. the Listener learns. has one erief-she ha
not been able to capture with her own hands
rattlesnake Her present chief aspiration is t<
find place where she would be likely to capt
ure good specimen of the reptile that set in
mark upon Elsie Venner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
THE REAL ESTATE MARKET.
A Decided Improvement During the Last
Week Continued Activity of Builders.

There was very decided improvement in the
real estate market during tho last week. There
transactions recorded than dnring
any week since the boom in May and June,
when natural gas first discovered near the
city. In all. seventy three deeds recorded,
representing total consideration Of $148, AS. 60.
There seems TO be more OF disposition among
those who have desirable property to put it
the rzarket at a reasonable price, and this, real
estate agents say, accounts for the increased
activity The great majority of the sales were
lots in suburban additions Woodruff and Wood
lawn places were especially attractive to the
buyers. and quite a number of unimproved lots
in each was disposed of at fair prices. Among
the purchasers of property in Wood
lawn addition was Treasurer of State J. A.
Lemcke, who bought an entire block, and paid
$1,000 for it. Qnite number of the lots In
Woodruff Place brought as high as 81, 600 each
There were also several sales of lots in Ovid
Buffers addition, northeast of the city, and they
all commanded good price. The only notable
transaction of the week was that of the lot 'front.'
irg Mary land street. between Illinois and
Meridian Streets and extending through to
Pearl street. now oecunied by Lewark's livery
stable and several other old buildings, by Mrs
Lizzie s. Palmer to Henry Frommeyer, OF the
South Meridian street Wholesale firm. for
so. 600. The lot is to be covered by Mr.. From
meyer with an extensive warehouse in the near
future.
The approach of fall has not had the effect to
diminish the building industry any. The num-
Der of permits issued during the last six days
was twenty-four. calling for expenditure of
$50. 400 WITH three or four exceptions they
were all for small cottages far out from the CEN
ter of the city Among the permits were the
following: M. Poop frame business house
Meridian street. near Morris, So 500 l. L. King
eusmith, two-story frame dwelling house on Col
lege avenue. near Ninth street. 81 900; Daniel
Monninger. two-story brick house on Tennessee
street. Walnut. 81, 800; Charles Aldag,
frame cottage on East Market street, near
Highland avenue. 81. $50: United States wire
and nail works, brick addition to factory
Munson street, $1,000; Susan d. Yeaton, two
story frama house Broadway, near Tenth
street. 81. $50.
THE majority OF the citizens have no idea
how much building has been done this year."
said a contractor at the Builders Exchange yes
terday. lit only be by taking day
and riding around the outskirts of the city.
Whole blocks of new dwelling houses have gone
up in nearly every direction, and many of them
very elegant residences. Nearly all / have
built have been for laboriue mer, and / think
the con tractors can all say the same thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28

The main trouble with Colorow seems to be
the excessive development of his anti poverty
bump. He agrees with the Eastern crusaders
that the earth and the fulness thereof belong to
the people, but he outstrips his effete associates
IN his plan of campaign and in the rapid reduc-
tion of theory to practice Instead of delivering
emotional speeches to mass meetings composed
mainly of women and children, and passing
around the inevitable hat, he loads his Winches
ter rife and proceeds to gather in the surround
ing things of life. With crude fondness for
pushing reforms to their ultimate results, he
doesn't stop with capturing the land for the pee-
ple but goes still further and tries abolish the
private ownership of horses, whisky, ammu-
milton and canned oysters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28

men who attended to the White mountain bust
ness The area then included radius of
thirty miles around tho Crawford House. He
found that in 1874 the entire business within
this district amounted to $4,000 TweDty-f five
not increased since 1869 in the same proportion,
but 1t Is estimated that the tourists will leave
them this year So. 900. 900 to be distributed
chiefly among the inhsbitants of New Hamp-
shire This is the harvest of the hotels and the
livery stables. The gains of the railroads
not included. This a pretty good sailing for
the inhabitants of the State, and shows that
there IS more money in the granite hills than
those ever dreamed of who fir st began the enter
tainment OF summer visitors among The mount
AIMS The White hills are the best investment
in the Granite State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28

He Bewitches a Charlottesville Woman, but
She Soon Wearies of Him.

He Bewitches a Charlottesville Woman, but
She Soon Wearies of Him.
Ironton TO- Special
Chief of Police Van Horn made a sensational
arrest last night He interposed his cruel hand
and disturbed the wild career of one j. C. Wag-
ner. cheeky young IAN who had held chair in
prominent tonsorial establishment in this city
for ten days past, and had ouarted at the Massie
House with bewitching young woman whom
he represented as his wife. but who 10 mono other
than the wife of John G. Wampler. a merchant
of Charlottesville Ind, and the daughter of 8
wel-known and very wealthy banker of that
city.
Mrs. Wampler has been missing from her
home for three or four weeks past, has been
noted in the papers. Her husband employed a
detective in the case, who tracked the barber
and Mrs. Wamplsr to Dayton, and thence to
Ironton, whittier he sent the wronged husband,
with the above result. Mr.. Wamplsr accompa-
MED the officer when ne made the arrest, and,
when the marshal emerged from the barber-shop
with his man. made at him viciously in the
dark, but the guardian of the peace interfered
Wagner was very glad to be safely locked up.
Wampler and the officer then went to the hotel,
a second rate hosiery, where the husband found
his wife in her room. and greeted her affection
ately. She seemed Indifferent to his attentions
at first but they soon sought another hotel, and
to-day the wife seems penitent.
The woman in the case is not beautiful or at
tractive Sne is q decided blonde. of petite
form, weighing only seventy-seven pounds. and
quite young. AT the hotel where she and Wag-
ner secured lodging she attracted attention by
her refined manners and elegant apparel She
seemed melancholy throughout her stay, how
ever, and the arrival of her husband was no
doubt great relief to her. He is gentleman
of about thrty-fve, with brisk. manners, and
black eyes Wagner is a neat looking brunette,
of fastdous taste, with face that is pleasant,
but otherwise unattractIve.
He is a decided cripple. He first met Mrs.
Wampler when he called at her home in Craw-
louisville selling door bells. and upon a subse-
quent visit made arrangement to meet her in
Indianapolis. They came TO Cincinnati, where
Wagner worked q week in barber shop on
Broadway, then went to Dayton, and there an
swered advertisement for barber wanted in
Ironton. At Indianap polls they pawned Mrs.
Vampires diamond ring, worth $l60. for SO, dis
posed of her diamond earrings and breast-pin
at Dayton in a similar manner. and yesterday
got rid of the woman's watch $12 loan. All
these valuables were recovered to-day. Mr.
Wamper decided not to prosecute the giddy
knight of the razor. and. as he dead broke,
he released and skipped. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wampler started home night
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
SUMMER BOARDERS.
The Other Side ofthe Story Told by One Who
Has Had Experience.

New York Epoch.
At this season the professedly comic papers,
and even many OF those that only occasionally
wander into the rather arid fields of contempt
rary humor, abound in numerous hits or sklts at
the proprietors of summer boarding houses.
These people depicted harpies YAM
pires, who fatten on their unfortune city guests,
and at the end of the ummer leave them blood
less and penniless. In the imaginative picture
of the humorist, the boarding house keeper sup
plies canned vegetables, ancient eggs and we'll
skmmed milk in place of the fresh country food
which his advertisement 2lowingly describes;
his meat is mostly SALT and his residence is
q paradise for mosquitoes and preserve of ma
laria.
1t has been the writer's ill-fortune to keep,
within a few miles of New York. The location
is the bay, and the trip to the city by boat
occupies less than forty minutes. Boating,
bathing and fishing lie within almost q stones
throw of the house. and the grounds are large
and we'll shaded. But in consideration of these,
the rent is high md the season for summer
boarders is short. My terms for adults run from
SO to $l2 week, and if some of the fun-grinders
could hear the remarks that a statement of my
rates often provokes. they would be little
more mirth- provoking than they usually are
A few days ago was honored by the visit of
fashion ably attired and very naughty hammered
gentleman. II want" said he, "a very large
wife, and a smaller adjoining room for two chill
dren, ten and twelve. The board must be the
best and the children must have separate bed
steads; anything of that sort" L
stated that might be able to accommodate his
party. Then. madam. If your rooms suit and
you can give me a reference as to your table, L
would be willing to pay $40 week" de WAS
indignant when informed that my price would
be nearly double that sum. Madam" said he.
do You know that there are hundreds OF board
ing-house keepers in the CatskIlls and the upper
part OF this State who would be glad to take US
for $lS2"
Then why not 60 there2" 1 ventured to in
quire.
Because need to be near the city this sum-
mer"
I'm that case you will. think. find that you
Will have TO pay for the accommodation. When
you want the best board at the rate of about
twenty cents meal and rooms thrown in for
nothing, you will probably have to make long
journey before you find it. Good morning.
Many of the people who apply for board think
they ought 10 get it for about half what they
pay In the city during the winter Yet every
housekeeper knows that in summer, whom fruit
and fresh vegetables plsntlfully furnished,
IL costs far more to set table than it does in
the winter, And ia the smaller villages round
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
The Nation atty of Crispus Attacks.


When the proposed monument is erected, it is
to be hoped that full justice will be done to the
parentage of Attucks. He is commonly called
negro. 1t seems certain that he a half
breed Indian his mother having been a negress,
or, moro probably, mulatto Thus, regards
the non com batve African race, he may have
been only a auadroon 1t by virtue of his
Indian ancestry that he man of gigantic
city, that he led the mob with savage
whoop, and that, had he not been shot, he would
undoubtedly have slain the soldier whose gun
he had seized, and hom he had already knocked
down. Let the monument render honor the
race to which the prime honors of that illus
trious night are due.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
A FEMALE oPHIoLoGIsT.
Pleasing Story of Boston Girl with Scien.
tific Fancy for Snakes

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tific Fancy for Snakes.
Boston Transcript.
She lives in Maiden; she is seventeen years
that is to say, her specially is snakes. Very
often, in pleasant summer weather, this young
GIRL with hands clad IN high buck gloves and
armed with bottle of choroform, turks about
the fens, and pools. and thickets, watching for
snakes If you are fortunate you may meet her
gliding about in some deep glen in the Middle
sex fels-a girl fair to look upon, sauntering,
one might imagine. with eyes upon
the ground. in maiden meditation. fancy
not fancy Free because her fancy is bound to
snakes. aud she is searching iEtently for some
variety not yet added to her collection of several
hundred. Presently she stops: with an eager
CLEAN in her eyes, she crouches along a step or
two, her glove-clad right hand drawn back as if
to clutch some object; she springs forward to-
ward the ground with swift motion, and then
stands erect with the body of snake writing
about her arm in desperate throes. She has iE
by the neck, and proceeds calmly to thrust it's
head into the neck of her bottle of ch1oroform
Presently its throes over, save, possibly. the
little wrgge of its tail, which, the boys will tell
you. will not until the sun goes down.
The snake is placed in basket at her side, and
joins weird collection of specimens, all in
neat bottles of alcohol, soon she reaches
home.
a rather desperate contest, captured in the fells
a black snake so large and powerful that when
it wrapped. itself in the mad grasp of it's body
about her arm it strained her cords and muscles
SO severely that she was lame for week. 1t
did not prevent her. however. from sallying
forth again, and when she happened to perceive.
at the margin Of o pool, big water-snake of .